Awesome mom, stuffed Max (lots of pictures)

About two weeks ago, I showed my mother Avistew's stuffed Max. Knowing she crochets from time to time, I jokingly asked if she could make something like that, entirely expecting her to say she didn't have time for that or didn't want to, since she's only vaguely aware of Sam & Max. To my surprise, she said "I don't know, but I could try". I asked if she was serious, and she was. Woo!

So she bought thread, and I looked up and made screenshots of Max from all possible sides as reference pictures. She started working on the different body parts when she had time, expecting it to take at least a month.

But there we were this morning, not two weeks since she started, with all the parts done:You can already see the basic shape here.The pink circles are the ones Max has at the bottom of his feet.

Along with cotton, my mother had also bought a big bag of stuffing, so she got to work on filling out the different parts. When they were stuffed she added the pink in the ears and on the bottom of the feet:

Then, all that remained was sewing the different parts togetherand adding a face.The mouth was the hardest part to add. It's hard to show the edge of the mouth, since the most obvious choice, white, doesn't show at all. So she settled for pink.

Max was nice enough to pose:

Though it wasn't long until he started acting, well, Max-like:But that does show he also has a tail.

You can imagine why I wanted to brag here about this I know I could've posted this in the 'Fan Art' thread, but I thought it deserved its own topic.

How neat! And whaddaya know, there's even an indentation for his belly button!

Yeah, the belly button is great

Avistew;298456 said:

Ahahaha, awesome! He looks great! Give your mom a big hug

She was super-fast, too! That's impressive. It looks pretty big, what size is it?

She was as surprised as anybody that it got finished so quickly.

Also, he's 63 cm high (24.8 inches) when he's standing, from his toes to the tip of his ears.

Jennifer;298693 said:

It is very nice! I'd love to have one!

No, mine!

Hassat Hunter;298567 said:

Totally awesome.

But I guess I would have gone for black for the mouth instead of pink. Looks a bit weird now.Aside from that minor nitpick... Totally Awesome!

Jennifer;298693 said:

I think a medium-dark grey would have worked nicely for the mouth. That's what I usually use in my drawings of Max.

I think if you use too dark a colour, it puts too much emphasis on the mouth edges, and Max's lips aren't really that visible, at least in his Telltale model, which is what it was based on.Plus, I remember in one scene Max's lips do look pink-ish. I could be mistaking though.

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Avistew;298618 said:

I agree, and also I think the eyes are too close together. (If we're nitpicking).

Not really. We looked closely at the screenshots I took of in-game Max, and his eyes are above his second tooth from the left and right, and below the inner edge of his ears. My mom copied that as close as she could in cotton Max.